With 7-Zip on any computer, you can compress ratio with LZMA compression of high quality. You don't need to register or pay for 7-Zip. New version 9.11 Beta has just now released, continually supporting various formats, such as 7z, ZIP, GZIP, BZIP2 and TAR for packing or unpacking, ARJ, CAB, CHM, CPIO, DEB, DMG, HFS, ISO, LZH, LZMA, MSI, NSIS, RAR, RPM, UDF, WIM, XAR and Z for unpacking. The compressing speed is also remaining higher and better, nearly 2-10% than WinZip.

What's new in 7-Zip 9.11 Beta:
- 7-Zip now supports PPMd compression in .ZIP archives.
- Speed optimizations in PPMd codec.
- The support for archives in installers was improved.
- Some bugs were fixed.
- New localization: Kazakh.

If you haven’t updated it, now is your time to get the 7-Zip 9.11 Beta from Brothersoft!

We all know that WinRAR is a powerful compression tool and almost all the users of WinRAR must use right menu to compress. We can also do many other things with WinRAR, then we'll find that the right menu for WinRAR is not sufficient enough. Now, follow these steps to enhance your WinRAR right menu - Extract to higher folder.

Click Start menu and select "Run", enter "Regedit" to open the registry editor. Navigate to "KEY_CLASSES_ROOT/WinRAR/shell" , right click the shell menu and select New -> Key to create a new Kew under shell item, named it "Extract to higher folder".

Now right click on the new key and select New -> Key to create a "subkey" of the key we just created, rename this subkey "command" .

Note that in the right hand window the name "Default" and "value not set" appear. Double click on the "Default" and this brings up an Edit window which is used to set the default value. Enter ""C:Program FilesWinRARWinrar.exe" x -o- -ibck -ILOGrar.log -y "%1" .." in the window (not include the double quotation marks outside), note that "C:Program FilesWinRARWinrar.exe" is the menu of WinRAR in my computer, you must change it to yours. Read the rest of this entry »

As we know, WinRAR is a powerful compression tool. It provides complete support for RAR and ZIP archives and is able to unpack and convert files of many other formats, for example: CAB, ARJ, LZH, TAR, GZ, ACE, UUE, BZ2, JAR, ISO, Z, 7-Zip archives.

WinRAR can automatically recognize and select the best compression method. The special compression algorithm compresses multimedia files, executables and object libraries particularly well. WinRAR allows you to split archives into separate volumes easily, making it possible to save them on several disks for example. WinRAR is also ideal, if you are sending data through the web. Its 128 bit password encryption and its authenticated signature technology will give you the peace of mind you have been looking for.

WinRAR is not only a good compression tool, but also a good file manager, we can use it to do many other useful things, next I'll mention some of them, wish that will help you a lot. Read the rest of this entry »

WinRAR is a famous and powerful RAR Archiver and Archive Manager. With strong general and Multimedia compression, solid compression, archive protection from damage, processing of ZIP and other non-RAR archives, scanning archives for viruses, WinRAR released the new version strengthening portal archiving functions and fixing some kind of bugs with 3.92 Beta 1 and 3.91 Final. For different versions, it respectively changes:

For WinRAR 3.92 Beta 1:
1. If you start WinRAR command from Explorer context menu in multiple monitor configurations, the command dialog will be displayed on the same monitor as context menu. In previous versions it was always displayed on primary monitor.
2. WinRAR "Compress and email…" context menu command adds the archive name to email subject. Previous versions left the subject blank.
3. In RAR 3.91 -x switch could also exclude folders from archiving even if mask contained wilcard characters and did not contain a path. For example, -x*. excluded all those folders, which do not have the extension in the name. Now -x switch uses RAR 3.80 approach for masks without path, excluding folders only if mask does not contain wildcards and matches the folder name exactly.
4. Bugs fixed:
a) WinRAR 3.91 reported the incorrect "Unexpected end of archive" error, when opening an empty ZIP archive created with "New WinRAR ZIP archive" context menu command;
b) if "Delete archive" option was enabled when unpacking several ZIP archives and if one of archives was damaged, WinRAR did not delete archives after the damaged one, even if they were unpacked successfully;
c) if file matched two different masks in RarFiles.lst, WinRAR could select the last match. Normally, if neither of masks is a subset of another, the first match must be chosen.

All the users can log on Brothersoft, download or update your WinRAR to your desired version!

7-Zip is a very simple yet powerful archive utility with extensive support for multiple formats. This free file archiver features an extremely easy to understand interface and common functions, but its greatest strength lies in the unique compression capability it offers. 7-Zip has been designed to reduce the size of different types of files (Word documents, Excel spreadsheets, images etc.) thus achieving a file which can be up to five times smaller than the original. 7-Zip uses the new 7z compression format, which compression rates are up to 50% better than standard ZIP, without any quality or speed loss. All you lose is file size! Besides this innovative format, 7-Zip supports other more common as ZIP, CAB, RAR, ARJ, GZIP, TAR and others, so you can use it with virtually any compressed file you find.

The 7-Zip interface is as simple as can be, with a dual panel file browser and some basic configuration options. It integrates seamlessly into the Windows context menu and can be automatically associated with any of the supported formats.

So, I downloaded 7-Zip in its latest version (9.09 beta) and installed it under the Windows 7 environment in order to test its behavior and compatibility, and what you are about to read is the results of such testing.

Installation & First Run Read the rest of this entry »

WinRAR is a famous and functional RAR archiver and archive Manager. WinRAR contains more features, such as multimedia compression, solid compression, archive protection from damage, processing of ZIP and other non-RAR archives, scanning archives for viruses, programmable self-extracting archives(SFX), authenticity verification, NTFS and Unicode support, strong AES encryption, support of multivolume archives, command line and graphical interface, drag-and-drop facility, wizard interface, theme support and folder tree panel.

The current release WinRAR 3.91 Final changes:
1. Decompress 7-Zip archives created with LZMA2 algorithm.
2. Now a password is requested only once when unpacking 7z archives with encrypted file names from context menu. WinRAR 3.90 asked it twice.
3. Unpack tar.bz2 archives consisting of several smaller bz2 streams merged together. Previous versions unpacked only the first nested bz2 stream in such composite archive.
4. Display CRC32 of files inside of usual .gz (not .tar.gz) archives. Previous versions left this field blank for GZIP files.
5. Several bugs fixed.

Try the WinRAR 3.91 Final from Brothersoft right now!

7-Zip is nowadays a top archiver with a high compression ratio that can be used on any computer. 7-Zip 9.08 Beta launched supporting formats such as 7z, ZIP, CAB, RAR, ARJ, LZH, CHM, GZIP, BZIP2, Z, TAR, CPIO, RPM and DEB formats. Totally 7-Zip provides a compression ratio that is 2-10% better than the ratio provided by WinZip. Meanwhile, 7-Zip is also a powerful file manager making your files in a regular order. See what's new in 7-Zip 9.08 Beta as follows.

Changes in 7-Zip 9.08 Beta:
* 7-Zip now can unpack Apple Partition Map (APM) disk images.
* Speed optimizations in AES code for Intel's 32nm CPUs.
* Speed optimizations in CRC calculation code for Intel's Atom CPUs.
* Some bugs were fixed.

Don't use this alpha version for important data. Call "Test" command after each compressing operation.7-Zip 9.08 Beta is available on Brothersoft!

WinRAR released new 3.91 Beta 2 version improving its powerful archiver functions. Its main features are improved, such as strong general and multimedia compression, solid compression, archive protection from damage, ZIP and other archives processing, and so on. Here are some improving details in new WinRAR 3.91 Beta 2:

1. WinRAR might crash when testing corrupt CAB files.
2. Beta 1 crashed on some of TAR.BZ2 archives.
3. Total progress bar could be displayed incorrectly in "Convert archives" command in beta 1.
4. SFX archives set the wrong value to "sfxcmd" environment variabe if user account control prompt was displayed when unpacking.

Whatever, WinRAR is now still the most powerful archiver manager all over the world due to its few system resource occupation, solid compression and multimedia compression that can not be realized in other archivers.

Update WinRAR 3.91 Beta from Brothersoft and have a trial!

The most powerful archiver and archiver manager–WinRAR has updates to 3.91 Beta 1. This is a piece of big news for the WinRAR users. In new version, WinRAR still keep the main features such as multimedia compression, solid compression, archive protection from damage, processing of ZIP and other non-RAR archives, scanning archives for viruses, etc.

Main improvements in WinRAR 3.91 Beta 1 are as below:
1. This version can decompress 7-Zip archives created with LZMA2 algorithm.
2. Now a password is requested only once when unpacking 7z archives with encrypted file names from context menu. WinRAR 3.90 asked it twice.
3. This version can unpack tar.bz2 archives consisting of several smaller bz2 streams merged.Previous versions unpacked only the first nested bz2 stream in such composite archive.
4. WinRAR displays CRC32 of files inside of usual .gz (not .tar.gz) archives. Previous versions left this field blank for GZIP files.

Some bugs fixed from last 3.90 makes a more powerful WinRAR 3.91 Beta 1 out. WinRAR users should update WinRAR 3.91 Beta 1 right now from Brothersoft!

WinRAR 3.90 is a very powerful archiver and archive manager. Now the WinRAR 3.90 released continually supporting all popular compression formats (RAR, ZIP, CAB, ARJ, LZH, ACE, TAR, GZip, UUE, ISO, BZIP2, Z and 7-Zip).

What's New in WinRAR 3.90:
1.Added support for ZIP archives containing Unicode file names in UTF-8 format. When creating ZIP archive, WinRAR stores names in Unicode only if they cannot be stored correctly using the current single byte character set.
2. Added decompression support for WinZip AES encrypted ZIP archives.
3. Improved Unicode support for RAR and ZIP archive names
4."Ask before overwrite" and "Skip existing files" update modes are now available in archiving dialog. They allow users to specify WinRAR behavior when updating already existing files in archive. Unlike already available "Fresh existing files only" and "Add and update files", these new modes ignore file date and compare only file names.

WinRAR 3.90 fixed the follow bugs:
a) WinRAR could fail to open tar or tar.gz archive if such archive contained a file larger than 8 GB;
b) WinRAR context menu did not work properly in Windows 7 beta if icons in context menus were enabled and user clicked a file inside of Windows 7 Library folder;
c) previous WinRAR versions failed to rename files having 5 or more continuous spaces in the name. WinRAR shell does not display such spaces for safety reasons, because they can hide an actual file extension.

Try the WinRAR 3.90 immediately on Brothersoft.com!